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Writing Den: Paragraphs
How do you write a paragraph? Use this site to learn more about the different parts of a paragraph.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas
Do your students' minds go blank when they confront a blank piece of paper? Speedwriting can help them get started with writing as well as come up with topics to write about. They can then incorporate their key ideas and phrases into a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks learners to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic. This will help you understand the writing task.
Other
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Freewriting
This Paradigm Online Writing Assistant site clearly explains freewriting and gives three practice exercises. Includes links to more writing help.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Squiggles
After reading "The Squiggle" by Carole Lexa Schafer, students use their own creative vision and talent to turn a squiggle into a masterpiece. They use crayons to color background and details, anything that helps make their squiggle into...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by analyzing the requirements for the culminating task product for the application unit.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare to Write
Conduct research to gather additional evidence to prepare to write.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Organize Before Writing
Revise the organization of your writing to a prompt to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic to help understand the task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the culminating task for Romeo and Julie to help understand the task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Prepare to Write
We will prepare to write by analyzing the culminating task for A Lesson Before Dying guidebook unit. This will help us understand the task and prepare to gather evidence.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about the theme of isolation in A Lesson Before Dying.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Color Poems: Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Feature Story?fifteen Minutes (And 500 Words) of Fame!
Contains plans for five lessons that teach students how to write feature news stories and the difference between feature and hard news articles. Students interview each other as prewriting for writing their own human interest stories. In...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Outlines, Notes, Graphic Organizers, Lists
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to use outlines, notes, graphic organizers, and lists to help you evaluate and organize your ideas.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organizing the Structure of a Paper (English Iii Writing)
Learn how to organize your essay with relevant evidence that supports your thesis.
Other
Brain dance.com: Three Step Creative Writing Process
This process seems very involved, but there are good ideas for getting started on your creative writing if you're stuck at the brainstorming stage.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborative Revising
Lesson in which young scholars engage in an entire-group revising process, using a story which has already been written by the group. An excellent follow-up lesson plan to the "prewriting and drafting" lesson plan.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Introduction to Writing Process
This lesson introduces the writing process and explains why it is a process. It lists the stages of the writing process and the learning objectives for the lessons on the topic. The NEXT button at the bottom of each section will take you...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 5th Grade Narrative Prompt: School Scenes in "Slow Motion"
This exercise was designed to serve as a pre-writing activity for one of their three designated fifth grade practice prompts for the state writing exam. The prompt is: Think about a time when something special or unusual happened at...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Write a Personal Narrative (English 7 Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn prewriting strategies in order to write with a clearly defined focus for your narrative.